I do remember this bit of road near Dorchester, between 2 roundabouts, uphill 2 lane and flat out, my ear was literally next to his zorst bloody marvellous.
https://goo.gl/maps/zh27o7eapMFayQQq9When we got to France the route was Cherbourg St-Lo Vire and plenty of backroads to Le Mans, iirc we had 20+ bikes that year with me as “leader”
obviously someone was gonna get lost which they did, 2 peeps made a break for it and Ash on his triple 8 followed, next village he was stopped by the gendarmes, not for speeding as we initially thought but a report of a red Ducati that had been stolen lol, I can’t quite remember the whole story but he might have had to do a fair bit of explaining in his chicken French to be allowed on his way. The upshot of it was when we’d arrived at the hotel there were the 2 who’d shot of from the ferry the 2 who’d got lost and Ash.
We the rest of the group had waited in a town for the 2 lost and Ash to catch up, but there’d already found each other and taken a bypass around us, I can’t remember who got the beers in but a great weekend was had by all